The turning point of Jalal to AKBAR. - Page 19

Originally posted by: myviewprem

Akbar's wives

Here is list of his 35 wives taken from jehangirnama and other official records. He had 300 wives officially. Some of them may not be royals

(first) at Ghazni, 1552, his cousin, Shahzadi Ruqiya Sultan Begum Sahiba (b. 1542; d.s.p. at Agra, 5^th February1626 n.s. (bur. Kabul), daughter of his paternal uncle, Shahzada Abu Nasir Muhammad Hindal Mirza.

m.(second) 1556, a daughter of Jamal Khan, of Mewat.

m. (third) at Mankot, 1557, a daughter of Abdu'llah Khan Mughal. m.

(fourth) before 11^th September 1561 o.s., Salima Sultan Begum Sahiba (b. 23^rd February 1539; d. at Delhi, 27^th December 1612 n.s. (bur. in the Mandarkar Garden, Agra), widow of Waqil us-Sultanat, Yar Wafadar, Baradur Neku-siyar, Farzand-i-Saadatmand, Nawab Bairam Khan Bahadur, Khan-i-Khanan [Khan Baba], sometime Vicegerent of the Empire, and daughter of Khwaja Nur ud-din Muhammad Mirza [Sayyid Amir], by his wife, Shahzadi Gul Barg Begum Sahiba, daughter of Al-Sultan al-'Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram Zahir ud-din Muhammad Jalal ud-din Babur Padshah Ghazi, Emperor of India.

m. (fifth) at Sambhar, 6^th February 1562, Wali Nimat, Mariam uz-Zamani Begum Sahiba (d. at Agram, 19^th May 1623 n.s., bur. Rauza Mariam, Sikandara), ne Rajkumari Hira Kunwari Sahiba, alias Harkha Bai, eldest daughter of Raja Bihari Mal, Raja of Amber.

m. (sixth) at Nagaur, 1562, Maharajkumari Shri Nathi Bai Sahiba, daughter of Maharajadhiraj Parama Bhattarak Shri Maharawal Ji Bairi Hariraj Singh Dev Bahadur, Yadukul Chandrawhal, Bijaimand, Maharaja of Jaisalmer.

m. (seventh) before 21^st August 1563 n.s., the former wife of Abdu'l-Wasi.

m. (eighth) near Mandu, September 1564, a daughter of Miran Mubaraq Shah Faruqi II, King of Khandesh.

m. (ninth) a daughter of Fadan Khan.

m. (tenth) 1569, a daughter of Sultan Muhammad Nasir ud-din Husain Shah [Hosaina Shaha] Ghazi, Sultan of Kashmir.

m. (eleventh) 1570 (div.), Sindh Begum Sahiba (d.s.p.), daughter of Mirza Muhammad Baqi Tarkhan of Thatta, Sind.

m. (twelfth) at Nagaur, 16^th November 1570, Baiji Lal Raj Kanwari Sahiba, daughter of Kunwar Shri Kanho [Kanhaji], of Bikaner, and niece of Rao Shri Kalyan Mal, Rao of Bikaner.

m. (thirteenth) at Nagaur, 16^th November 1570, Baiji Lal Bhanumati Kanwari Sahiba, daughter of Kanwar Sri Bhim Rajji, Gai Bhum ra Bahru, of Bikaner.

m. (fourteenth) ca. 1572, a daughter of Nahar Das Isar Das. m.

m. (fifteenth) 1573, a daughter of Raja Shri Jai Chand, of Nagaur.

m. (sixteenth) at Fatehpur Sikri, 1575, Kasima Banu Begum Sahiba, daughter of Arab Shah.

m. (seventeenth) 1577, a daughter of Maharawal Shri Askaran Sahib Bahadur, Maharawal of Dungarpur.

m. (eighteenth) ca. 1581, Rajkumari Shri Rukmawati Baiji Lall Sahiba [Jodh Bibi] (d.s.p. before 30^thMay 1623, bur. Bihishtabad Sikandara, near Agra), daughter of Rao Shri Mal Deoji, Rao of Marwar, by his paswan, Tipu.

m. (nineteenth) 1581, a daughter of Raja Shri Kesho Das Rathore, of Merta.

m. (twentieth) at Lahore, 1594, a daughter of Qazi Isa, of Qazwin.

m. (twenty-first) before 1597, a daughter of Nasir Khan.

m. (twenty-second) 1597, a daughter of Sri Sri Maharaja Lakshmi Narayan Bhup Bahadur, Raja of Cooch Behar.

m. (twenty-third) Gauhar Khanum, a sister of Shaikh Jamal Bakht Bahaduriyar. m. (twenty-fourth) Tara Begum Sahiba, who built the Tara Bagh at Agra.

m. (twenty-fifth) Tauti Begum Sahiba, who built the Tota Bagh and Tota ka Tal in Agra. m.

(twenty-sixth) a daughter of Hasan Khan of Merta.

m. (twenty-seventh?) a maternal niece of Jodhaji Soda, of Nawanagar (d. after 1608). m.

(twenty-eighth?) Manbhaoti Begum (a concubine?), who built a garden at Agra.

m. (twenty-ninth?) Abdar Begum Sahiba (a concubine?).

m. (thirtieth?) Achanak Begum (a concubine?), who built the garden of Achanak Bagh, on the banks of the Jamuna river, at Agra.

m. Bibi Pungrai.

m. 1564, Bibi Aram Bakhsh.

m. Bibi Salima Sultana (d. at Lahore, 23^rd May 1599).

m. Bibi Khaira.

m. Bibi Maryam (d. at Lahore, 1596).

m.Bibi Daulat Shad.

m. Bibi Naun.

m. (h) at Srinagar, October 1592, a daughter of Shams Chak, of Kashmir.(Emperor Akbar. m. 12 Rajput princesses in total).

Wife from royal family if called Shehzadi/Rajkumari or father is Shezada/Raja. Else they are not from royal background. Some of these women may be cocubines(maid servants).